Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...muscular black men; big Negroes with rhythm in their shoulders; strong, dark prophets of the Lord leaning far out from the warning places; holy fire in their eyes, holy rhythm in their sway, holy words rolling out from their mouths of wisdom; softly now, then louder, getting deep when they roar of the Fiery Furnace; thundering the Lord and his works on Sinai; now softly again, slower, crooning how the Lord was in his good works at little Jerusalem; sobbing how the humbler Lord was broken and crucified by the white soldiers; and then blaring it out, then trumpeting brass...
...carnival week again in Manhattan. This time a muscular corset-salesman had murdered a middle-aged art editor, assisted by the editor's adulterous wife...
...Hermon Atkins MacNeil, who was born in Massachusetts, has molded his frontierswoman with all the solidity and heavy figure of a muscular St. Gauden's French peasant. She strides forward with breasts uptilted, an ax in her hand, a babe on her hip. It is apparent that she is about to hew something. She won place in the balloting in Manhattan...
...generally thought to be double-jointed. Disparaging this rumor, Toto said, "There is no such thing as being double-jointed. Every trick I perform is made possible through practice. Houdini was not a contortionist; he was a trickster. Each of his acts were done by subtility, and not by muscular coordination. Anyone can double himself into a small space if he will only practice...
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.; enrollment, 3,146) suspended all classes one afternoon last week so that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard...